studio feb 16 10"x 14" part 3

stydio feb 15 10" x 14" part 2

I lost a lot of color while transferring to the internet.... the yellow had more hue, as did the orange. I suppose the photographs could have been better to start with.

studio feb 14 10"x14"

studio feb 11

Gsaxena, brown paper drawing, feb 11, 13"x16"

Gsaxena, large collage drawing, feb 11, 35"x22"

Gsaxena, redone collage, feb 11, 13.5" x 10"

Gsaxena, redone yellow painting, feb 11, 28"x 24"

studio feb 10 (morandi) and pattern

Gsaxena, Still-life with spice jar, karua, & hanky from Nepal, Feb 10, 10"x 14"

I was looking at Morandi's still-life and simplified mine. The colors were so jarring before. I need to learn about warm and cool colors for shadows etc. Here is a still-life by Morandi (1890-1964)--an Italian painter.

Giorgio Morandi, Still life 1953, 8"x15 7/8", oils

I might redo the background on mine. Make it flatter and less wispy... perhaps.

This was my pattern painting today:

Gsaxena, remaining paint and more, feb 10, 28"x 24"

It is fun having two completely different methods to work on.

studio feb 4 &7 remaining paint

I find the leftover fragments after a drawing, painting, or collage fascinating. After I made that collage still life last week, the next day I had to clean up the little left over fragments. The leftover shapes were so interesting and tiny. As I collected them they formed a collage of their own.

Gsaxena, remaining pieces, Feb 04, 11"x 17"

The same goes for left over paint on the palette. Acrylics tends to dry out, unlike oil paints which one can preserve for a day at least. So as it nears 5 pm and I have to clean up a bit, i use the remaining paint on left over paper.

Gsaxena, remaining paint and a little more, 20"x 7" apprx.

I am realizing I prefer unfinished drawings and paintings to over working them. Of course, I don't actually know what 'unfinished', 'overworking', or 'finished' means... I am doing painting exercises with still life nowadays, because still life is all around me. This particular one seems over composed and crafted...

Gsaxena, Still life in process 01, feb 07, 10"x 14"

Gsaxena, Still life in process 02, feb 07, 10"x 14"

Gsaxena, Still life in process 03, feb 07, 10"x 14"

studio feb 03 mostly done collage

GSaxena, Fruit Study, Feb 03 2011, 20"x28"

Internet doesn't reproduce colors very well. This is mostly done now... wasn't sure if collaging through and through was a good technique for this piece. It was a good exercise in color and shapes though.

studio feb 02 still incomplete

GSaxena, Incomplete Collage, feb 02 2011

studio feb 01 incomplete collage

GSaxena, Incomplete Collage, Feb 01 2011, 20"x28"

studio jan 31 fruit studies

GSaxena, Fruit 01, Jan 31 2011, 8"x10"

GSaxena, Fruit 02, Jan 31 2011, 8"x10"

GSaxena, Fruit 03, Jan 31 2011, 8"x10"

GSaxena, Fruit 04, Jan 31 2011, 8"x10"

studio jan 28 apple study

Gsaxena, Apple Drawing, Jan 28 2011

method

Alberto Giacometti, 1962,  Portrait of Caroline

Alice Neel, Pregnant Woman, 1971

studio jan 26 with mom

GSaxena, Mother Triptych 2009

This is for my mother. I took these pictures in 2009. I think they make a lovely triptych together. I was figuring out how to use my camera at the time and got this dragging light effect.

Also I saw a nice drawing a few days ago at the Vogel 50x50 site.

Will Barnet,  Untitled (Study for Mother and Child Reading), 1985

studio Jan 25 drawings

GSaxena, Some Drawings from Jan 21-25, 2011

Indian Art Summit 2011

Raqs Media Collective, Experimenter India

Aji V.N., Mirchandi + Steinruecke

The Indian Art Summit in Delhi took place last week with 84 galleries participating from 20 countries... whew! My mother and I attended the last one. Wish I had bought something then as a keepsake--a print or a small drawing (was probably too expensive anyway)--but the  experience had been so overwhelming. I generally have a hard time taking so much art in at one go (same problem with enormous museums). I guess most people visit the exhibition every day, covering it bit by bit.

Here are a few reviews of the exhibition: Metropolis M, Rekha Rodwittiya, Indian Art News, and By All means Necessary. The pictures are from Metropolis M's Review.

	Jitish Kallat, Chemould Prescott Road

Jitish Kallat, Chemould Prescott Road

	Krishna Murari, Gallery Alternatives

Krishna Murari, Gallery Alternatives

	Bani Abidi, Experimenter India

Bani Abidi, Experimenter India

Subodh Gupta, Nature Morte

missed a good show

I feel terrible to have missed this show of the Russian artist (born in 1953) Mikhail Karasik's artist books at the Museum Valkhof Kelfkensbos. I missed it by a day, and the museum is just a 15 minute drive away. The catalog might be nice though. The colors in these images posted by the museum are unbelievable.




Instead, this weekend, I visited three galleries here in Nijmegen, scouting places to connect with the art community and maybe have a show. It was my first experience with looking at a gallery space in that way--rather exciting. But I was also amazed by how different spaces can feel, their vibes, and how that affects the art in the space.

my grad work

Garima Saxena, The Gathering-Tiger Rice Orange Fish, 2008, 4 Channel Video Projection.

A reminder to myself about my own graduate work Tiger Rice Orange Fish-The Gathering in 2008. It was a 4 channel video projection. This is a great reminder about materiality to myself.